Sessions announces opioid fraud and abuse detection unit

Attorney GeneralJeff Sessionsannounced just last week that jurisdictions will not be eligible for the $380 million available from a federal grant program if they block access to immigration information or detained immigrants.

Opioid abuse includes prescription drugs, painkillers, and heroin.

Perdue and Cotton introduced a bill in February that would change the 1965 law to reduce the number of legal immigrants.

"This will be the highest drug death toll, and the fastest increase in a drug death toll, in the history of this republic". It was one of several visits he's paid in recent weeks.

Sessions will also be dispatching 12 federal prosecutors to cities where the epidemic is most devastating.

"If you're a doctor prescribing opiates for profit, or a pharmacist who leaves these pills end up in the street on the basis of orders that you know you obtained it in a fraudulent manner, we will continue", said the minister of Justice, Jeff Sessions.

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The problem in OH is so severe that at one point this year a county coroner asked for a refrigerated storage trailer to accommodate all the bodies.

The White House commission on opioid addiction called on Trump on Monday to declare the opioid epidemic a federal state of emergency. The CDC said drug overdoses accounted for more than 52,400 deaths in 2015, with almost two of three overdoses caused by an opioid.

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